Eline Ketelaars

Seasoned General Counsel with a track record of shaping legal strategy at board and executive level while managing a team, combined with hands-on experience as sole in-house counsel, equally effective setting direction and delivering it.

Broad experience delivering pragmatic, business-focused legal strategy across 30+ countries in EMEA, heavily regulated industries including finance, life sciences, mobility and FMCG, and both private and publicly listed multinationals, underpinned by magic circle law firm training and experience.

First-hand experience living and working in the Netherlands, Canada, the Caribbean, London and Frankfurt, bringing cross-cultural insight, adaptability, transferable skills, and the ability to hit the ground running in any organisational context.

Strategic legal business partner and trusted advisor to executive teams who thrives in C-suites navigating structural change, including accelerated growth, market expansion, M&A, divestiture, restructuring or distress, as well as rapidly evolving regulatory landscapes. Combined cross-functional fluency and an entrepreneurial mindset with a proven ability to build legal functions from the ground up in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, while maintaining a collaborative approach.

Combines deep technical boardroom skills (board diploma, finance), interpersonal skills (mediation) and genuine fluency in emerging technologies and innovation (AI, legal design) with a proven ability to rapidly diagnose how the legal function can be improved and leveraged for maximum value - removing bottlenecks, reducing cost and risk, increasing efficiency.